connivance

Connivance

The furtive consent of one person to cooperate with another in the commission of an unlawful act or crime—such as an employer's agreement not to withhold taxes from the salary of an employee who wants to evade federalIncome Tax. The false consent that a plaintiff gave to a defendant's past conduct during their marriage which the plaintiff presently alleges as a ground forDivorce.

Connivance has been used as a defense primarily in an action for divorce based upon Adultery. In situations where connivance is used, the facts must establish that the plaintiff either consented or knowingly acquiesced to the adulterous conduct of the spouse or created the opportunity for adultery by persuading someone to seduce the spouse. It is considered a logical extension of the equitable Maxim of clean hands in that it would be unfair to permit a plaintiff to obtain judicial relief for a situation which he or she created. Practically speaking, however, connivance is rarely asserted as a defense. The modern trend in divorce laws is that there is little benefit to continuing a marital relationship between partners so indifferent to each other that they consent to a serious violation of their marital vows.

The defense of connivance cannot be asserted in an action based upon a state's no-fault divorce laws.

connivance

the tacit encouragement of or assent to another's wrongdoing, for example, the petitioner in a divorce suit to the respondent's adultery. See also LENOCINIUM.

CONNIVANCE. An agreement or consent, indirectly given, that something
unlawful shall be done by another.
2. The connivance of the husband to his wife's prostitution deprives
him of the right of obtaining a divorce; or of recovering damages from the
seducer. 4 T. R. 657. It may be satisfactorily proved by implication.
3. Connivance differs from condonation, (q.v.) though either may have
the same legal consequences. Connivance necessarily involves criminality on
the part of the individual who connives, condonation may take place without
implying the slightest blame to the party who forgives the injury.
4. Connivance must be the act of the mind before the offence has been
committed; condonation is the result of a determination to forgive an injury
which was not known until after it was inflicted. 3 Hagg. Eccl. R. 350.
5. Connivance differs, also, from collusion (q. Y.); the former is
generally collusion. for a particular purpose, while the latter may exist
without connivance. 3 Hagg, Eccl. R. 130. Vide Shelf. on Mar. & Div. 449; 3
Hagg. R. 82; 2 Hagg. R. 376; Id. 278; 3 Hagg. R. 58, 107, 119, 131, 312; 3
Pick. R. 299; 2 Caines, 219; Anth. N.P. 196.

The bureau said in its reference filed in the accountability court that the investigation was conducted regarding corruption and corrupt practices in the advertisement awareness campaigns on TV and FM channels between July 2013 and June 2015 and it was found that the accused acted in connivance with each other resulting in loss to the national exchequer.

In some cases, he in connivance with other members even gave illegal price increase on incomplete/incorrect costing data/inflated import invoices of raw material and finished drugs as the data submitted by the Pharmaceutical companies/firms was not even verified/checked while granting price increase.

Medina said events happened "with the connivance of some penitentiary authorities" and noted that several officials including the jail director, his deputy, the head of security and 18 guards were removed from their jobs and are to be investigated.

Bodyguards of Younus Qanoni, speaker of the Lower House of Parliament, in connivance with police, have reportedly beaten up some people who were on way to attend fateha in Khairkhana-I locality of Kabul Monday afternoon.

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